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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Figures -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION: THE ELEMENTS IN THE STRATEGIC DEBATE -- Four Paths to Peace -- Vulnerability-Based Nuclear Deterrence -- Retaliation-Based Nuclear Deterrence -- Non-Nuclear Deterrence -- Disarmament: A Non-Deterrent Strategy -- Space, the Emerging Key to Military Power -- 1. VULNERABILITY-BASED NUCLEAR DETERRENCE -- How MAD Developed -- How Much Destruction? -- Does MAD Require Nuclear Weapons? -- The Role of Defenses in MAD -- Scientific Dispassion and the Strategic Debate -- From MAD to a Non-Deterrent Approach: Disarmament -- 2. RETALIATION-BASED NUCLEAR DETERRENCE -- The Way We Are: Nuclear Warfighting -- US Warfighting Strategy Since World War II -- Exchange Calculations and Strategic Stability -- Theoretical Comparisons -- War Gaming and Simulation -- Practical Estimates -- The Best Defense Is a Good Offense -- The Bottom Line -- 3. NON-NUCLEAR DETERRENCE -- Denying Enemy Plans -- Defenses in the Nuclear Age -- Interservice Rivalry (1957-1960) -- Making the Argument Public (1965-1969) -- The Triumph of Detente (1972) -- Strategic Defense (1983) -- Requirements of a Non-Nuclear Deterrence -- Denying Soviet War Aims -- Assured Survival -- Transition Stability -- The Moral Dimension to Strategic Defense -- 4. DISARMAMENT: A NON-DETERRENT STRATEGY -- Development of Soviet Strategy -- Strategic Defense in Soviet Strategy -- Disarmament: The Soviet "Main Blow" -- Soviet Views on the Military Use of Space -- CONCLUSION: US STRATEGIC DEFENSE -- Evolving US Strategic Defense Alternatives -- Three Defensive Systems -- Defense System A -- Possible Soviet Response to System A -- Defense System B -- Possible Soviet Response to System B -- Concepts for US System C -- Who Will Guard the Guards? -- EPILOGUE -- THE AUTHOR.